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Fifty years of diplomatic relations with China: an ‘open and pragmatic’ partnership
This year, the Netherlands and China reflect on fifty years of diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level. How has the relationship between the countries developed over the past half century? An interview with university lecturer Vincent Chang.
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While doing research on victimhood, Criminology student Sara suffered a serious injury and became a victim herself
In the middle of doing research for her master’s thesis, Sara Kalf (24) was hit by a car and got seriously injured. After a long period of rehabilitation and hard work, this week she can finally add her signature to the wall of the Academy Building’s ‘Sweat Room’.
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Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies
A team of Leiden astronomers used the latest set of data from ESA’s Gaia mission to look for high-velocity stars being kicked out of the Milky Way, but were surprised to find stars instead sprinting inwards – perhaps from another galaxy.
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Leiden Islam Academy: sharing knowledge and making contact
The aim of Leiden Islam Academy is to share the broad knowledge of Islam existing in Leiden University with various parties within society, and to bring people together. After three years of preparation, the launch meeting will take place on 7 December.
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How to address sensitive subjects in class?
The war between Russia and Ukraine, the conflict in Gaza or the global rise of the far-right: topics that stir up emotions but are also regularly discussed in classes at Political Science. Moreover, with a diverse group of students, there is a great diversity of life experiences, backgrounds and opinions.…
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Minister Ollongren impresses with personal speech: 'Our strongest weapons are people'
After 2.5 years as defence minister, it is time for Kajsa Ollongen to hand over the baton. In front of a packed audience, she gave her farewell speech at Leiden University in The Hague on Tuesday, which included personal lessons and memories, from sleeping on the ground with the prime minister to the…
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Pre-University College celebrates 20-year anniversary: ‘Still unique in the Netherlands’
Leiden University's Pre-University College is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The programme introduced hundreds of secondary school pupils to science and the university. We asked those involved how PRE became so popular: ‘The students are the reason it still exists today.’
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Poor countries recycle far more of our plastic than we thought. But it's not enough.
Countries that import plastic waste recycle an average of at least 63 percent of it. This is surprising, as we previously believed that the vast majority was incinerated or ended up as litter. This was discovered by PhD candidate Kai Li and his colleagues from the Institute of Environmental Sciences in…
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Chair of UN Studies in Peace and Justice
From 1 August 2018, Alanna O'Malley was appointed as Chair of United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice, focusing on the ‘lesser-known actors’ of the UN: women, the youth, the agents of informal diplomatic networks within the UN and actors from the Global South. This Special Chair has been created…
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Social Science Matters: Wokeism
Minister of Justice Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius recently warned against
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Why Poetry? A Sufi Response
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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DUSANE: Dutch Symposium of the Ancient Near East 2023
Symposium
- I wouldn't start from here making the case for Outcome Trajectory Evaluation
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ASCL Seminar: Subaltern Metropolitan Adventure and Colonial Mediation in Nigeria
Lecture
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LTA lunchlezing Tsolin Nalbantian
Lecture
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Rock art and wellbeing
Lecture, Workshop
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Proud to be First!
Lecture
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On the Origins of 'The Origins of Inequality'
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Embodied Imamate: Mapping the Development of the Early Shiʿi Community 700-900 CE
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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LAMS Lecture Perennialist Traditionalism and Modern Philosophy
Lecture
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Can we overcome Orientalism with Multiculturalism? A Methodological Reflection on Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Lecture
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Asia Academy #09: India's Democracy
Lecture
- BA Spring Semester Arabic & Islamic Studies for students of Dutch and Flemish Universities
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Book Launch | Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco
Book Launch
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Documentary series #1: Memories of Communism in Lebanon - Two Videos by Marwan Hamdan
Documentary screening
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Revolutionary Parents: Intimate Cultural Memories of the Arab Left
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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POSTPONED - Roundtable - Russia’s War on Ukraine: Perspectives from and Impacts on Non-European Actors
Debate
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Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Jewish Magic from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
Lecture
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A Social History of Elephant Watching and Elephant Keepers in Early Modern China
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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LUCAS PhD Alumni Network Event 2022
Alumni event, Job market Preparation for PhD's
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Publish or Perish: Religious Zaydi publishers in Yemen during the 1990s
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- The Body Poetic: How identity is formed, negotiated, and renegotiated through interaction between the living and the dead
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Roundtable Discussion: Reorienting Islamic Studies in Asia
Debate
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Demons, Monks, and Merchants: Fate and Individual Agency in Ming Vernacular Short Stories (huaben)
Lecture, China Seminar
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Rethinking Economic Security and Resilience in Asia: Lessons from Australia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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Alumna Amber Brantsen: ‘Allow yourself to make mistakes’
A glowing first-time mother-to-be with an impressive CV for someone of her age, newsreader Amber Brantsen would seem to lead a charmed life. ‘But I began to resent that image,’ says the Leiden Public Administration alumna. This led her to write the impressive and personal Uit Beeld (Out of the Picture).…
- GTGC lunch seminar: remittance, paradigms, and extreme cases
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A Matter of Speech: Language of Social Interdependency in the Early Islamicate Empire (600-1500)
Conference
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Translating Jurjani: Why read an eleventh-century text about Arabic poetics?
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Political Symbolism and Conspiracies in Turkish State-Sponsored Historical TV Series: A Case Study of Payitaht Abdulhamid
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The Need for Teaching a More Accurate and Inclusive History of Science: The Case of Islamic Contributions to Math and Sciences
Debate
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The United States and the War in Gaza: History, Politics, and Culture
Debate, Panel and Q&A session
- The Anthropocene is a prospective epoch/series, not a geological event
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Rice Eaters in the Land of Cheese
PhD defence
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Neo Pan-Arabism and the Quest for Legitimacy of the Maghrebi Leadership
Lecture, research seminar
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With kind regards: October 2022
Lecture
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Global Privateering
Conference, Project launch
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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar